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    "id": 295179,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/295179/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong'o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me say this one. Clause 35(1) further says: “---comply with the teaching standards prescribed in the Commission under this Act. (2) For purpose of subsection (1), the Commission shall- (a) require every registered teacher to undertake career progression and professional development programmes---” This is very important. The reason I want to conclude with this is I think that in order for people to comply with this provision, we need to have in our counties Education Development Centres or Teacher Development Centres where teachers can go to do research, get some more information or to consult with others. The professional development programmes can be benchmarked against the development centres for teachers established in every county to help them upgrade themselves or know how to progress upwards in the absence of teacher training colleges. I think teaching development centres like farmers training centres in our constituencies are extremely important in implementing this. Let us not have provisions which we will expect teachers to comply with if there are no institutions to make them comply. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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